All economic activities and ongoing schemes would continue in the State amid execution of Covid norms.
A decision to this effect was taken at an all Secretaries’ meeting held though digitgal mode under the chairmanship of Chief Secretry Asit Tripathy here on Thursday.
It was decided to enhance the diet allowance per patient in Covid Care Centres to Rs 240 per day.
Te Chief Secretary directed the concerned departments and collectors to ensure continuance of industrial, agricultural, horticultural, mining activities. Transport of goods must be continued to ensure supply of essential commodities.
Reviewing the cases transferred from the Odisha Administrative Tribunal to the High Court, Tripathy directed the departments to categorise the cases like regularisation, pension, promotion, transfer, etc., and take clear-cut in-principle decisions for early disposal of the cases.
The total Programme Expenditure (PE) up to June 2020 was reduced by around 5.06% compared to the last fiscal. However, the expenditure in social and other sectors increased considerably. The TPE up to June was around Rs 8,923 crore against the last year’s around Rs 9,399 crore. But the expenditure in social sectors, including health and family welfare programmes, was around Rs.5,281 crore up to June against the last year’s Rs 4,225 crore.
Total revenue collection from both own-tax and non-tax sources up to June came down by around 22.94% compared to the corresponding period of last year. The total revenue collection up to June of current fiscal year was Rs 8,204 crore against the last year’s Rs 10,645 crore.
